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We are already talking to people about new projects, but all that we can say to them is that we do not know what the arrangements will be or even what the priorities for the new programme will be.
The benefits can be seen in our streets and communities every day. We have new schools, new technology, new information technology, new access to computers for schoolchildren, new sports facilities for schools and new hospitals.
On one of the Wednesday evenings after the meeting of the Parliament the committee could visit Hampden if nothing was happening there—which seems to be the case.
On Sunday, I saw a three-year-old toddler about to run into the road on one of those estates where you go and buy things. I wanted to shake the parent for not taking a child of such tender years by the hand.
Earlier, we heard from ACPOS—you did not hear this because you were at the Communities Committee meeting—that the process is likely to be evolutionary and that existing systems, rather than a big new IT solution, will underpin the new procedures.
If no mandatory and default conditions are in force before then, the industry will be less regulated than it is at present and we will not get the new protections that have been built in to cover various provisions of the 2005 act.